Jimmy fallon and now, here he is. Jimmy fallon [ applause ] [cheers and applause hey hey hey hey hello welcome thanks everybody oh, thank you very much. Welcome everybody. Thank you very much. Welcome. Please, please have a seat welcome, welcome, welcome to the tonight show everybody. Robert de niro is my guest tonight. [cheers and applause i called de niro back stage and i was like, youre on the show its good. Its good. Youre on the show he said keep doing that and i wont berobert stars in the new movie the irishman with al pacino and joe pesci a little strange to hear those three guys in a movie called the irishman. Like a movie starring liam neeson and Pierce Brosnan called the italian. The third night in a row we are coming to you live everybody [cheers and applause dont worry. Dont worry. If you missed anything we have a white house staffer back stage typing up a transcript so the big gnaws today trump released the transcript of his phone call with the president of ukraine. It sta
Going to thaerhear a little about that over the next couple hours. Hes going to join us, famed economist Robert Shiller, cnbc exclusive, to find out what he thinks about people using, yes, bitcoin to buy real estate thats a story were going to cover and ask the professor about it. Amongst other things as well. Geeky valuation questions. No. Yes i studied cfa for exactly this reason i con not rate. Were going to start with health care and a number of health cares from President Trump today on Drug Companies. Health care stocks taking a hit on those comments. Eamon javers is live at the white house if more on that. Reporter here at the whouit house the president of the United States scheduling an impromptu surprise press conference, brought a normal of us reporters to the rose garden, gathered around the podium the president came out with Mitch Mcconnell, republican leader in the senate the purpose of this gathering was for the president to say his relationship with Mitch Mcconnell is be
The week. The financials helped lead the way and the market may have been even higher if not for health care stocks. Well have more on that in just a moment. But first heres a look at the record cloe. The Dow Jones Industrial ave gained 85 points to 22,956. The nasdaq added 18, s p 500 was up with the dow on the verge of 23,000, the next big test for stocks is earnings. Sema mody is at the new york stock exchange. Reporter investors rally for earnings. Earnings season is about to kick into high gear with 55 s p 500 Companies Reporting this week. Thats 11 of the index. Expectations are high. Wall street is estimating an average 4 jump in profits from companie financials, the likely stealing the spotlight with Goldman Sachs and Morgan Stanley reporting on tuesday with Interest Rates on the rise, banking analysts are predicting a pickup in lending activity. Other important names on the earnings calendar is ibm which reports on tuesday, and general elec on friday. Investors will pay close
The speaker pro tempore pursuant to the order of the house of january 3, 2013, the chair will now recognize members from lists submitted by the majority and minority leaders for morning hour ebate. The chair will alternate recognition between the parties with each party limited to one hour and each member other than the majority and minority leaders and the minority whip each, to five minutes but in no event shall debate continue beyond 11 50 a. M. The chair recognizes the gentleman from illinois, mr. Quigley, for five minutes. Mr. Quigley thank you, mr. Speaker. Mr. Speaker, this body has attempted to repeal the Health Care Law 41 times. E this is this is being leveraged in the current budget fight. I want to take a few minutes to remind people why we passed the Health Reform law in the first place. Lets remember the situation before obamacare became law. Clearly, the status quo was not sustainable. The number one cause of personal bankruptcy in the United States was medical costs and
Total of 2400 for a family of four. There is an extra hundred dollars a week in Unemployment Benefits it. Revives the Paycheck Protection Program with a cash infusion and it extends the Eviction Moratorium and also provides funding for vaccine distribution. Now, it does not provide liability shield for businesses. It does not provide money for state and local governments and it does not provide direct aid to the Restaurant Industry which has been so hardhit already. Many lawmakers are complaining the bill doesnt go far enough. But, Senate Majority leader Mitch Mcconnell says it hits the mark but he blames Speaker Pelosi for holding it up for so long. Well, so its noteworthy that at the end they finally gave us what we could have agreed to back in july. I think what held it up was they did not want to do anything before the president ial election. I think they felt that that would disadvantage the president. Griff its a far cry from where Speaker Pelosi began negotiating this summer a n